Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 43

Initiator Creator - Issue #43

​By Saurabh Y. // 26 December 2020

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Developer

​Hotwire - HTML Over The Wire (By Basecamp) - Hotwire

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.

​2020 Roundup of Web Research - CSS-Tricks

It’s December! Lots of things are published this time of year, like developer advent calendars and organizations reflecting on the past year. CSS-Tricks team curated a list of the web research released this year.

​Top 10 Programmer Articles From 2020 - ZeroToMastery

10 articles that every programmer should read. Curated by Andrei Neagoie, founder of ZeroToMastery.

​Styling console.log() Output Formatting With CSS - Ben Nadel

If you look at the Mozilla Developer docs for Console, you'll see that the Console object supports some nifty features like string substitution and CSS styling. Both of these features work by using a special token inside the first console.log() argument followed by a series of subsequent arguments that are used to modify the first argument.

​CommonMark: A Formal Specification For Markdown - Smashing Magazine

CommonMark aims to provide a standardized specification of Markdown that reflects its real-world usage.

Designer

​Behind the scenes of video game design, featuring Headland - DESK Magazine

video game design is still a young enough practice to feel mysterious and discoverable.  That's even more true for mobile games. Going behind the scenes of Headland, a new action-adventure game for mobile, we learn the field of game design is one designers are creating as they go.

​Inside Figma: the product design team’s process - Figma

Consider this a deeper dive into Figma's day-to-day: meeting cadences, rituals, and anything else that helps Figma design team stay connected and efficient.

​A Designer’s Guide to Receiving Criticism and Managing Feedback - Medium

After hearing feedback, you can actually just state your need to think for a few seconds. We all need to regroup our thoughts and process other people’s statements sometimes. Something like “Ah, thanks for bringing that up. Let me think about that for a few seconds, I want to make sure I process that right.”

Entrepreneur

​Go Niche - NiemanLab

Niche platforms become valuable as they provide deeper insights on focus areas that larger but broader news organizations are more likely to miss.

​4 Signs You’re Building A World-Class Team - NfX

This is a fantastic article about what it takes to build a world-class team. It's easy to optimize for speed over sustainability when it comes to culture and hiring at early-stage startups. But, building organizational structure, capturing and developing talent, and creating a culture of opportunity are three of the most important things you can do early on.

​The Founder’s Guide to Actually Understanding Users - Grain

The four steps to ensure your customer discovery & development efforts result in great products that solve real problems.

Marketer

​Postpace - Content Writing Research Platform - Postpace

Postpace is a productivity platform for writers, bloggers, marketers and teams to automate their topic research workflow and rapidly build a content brief. Postpace helps study a topic by analyzing the top 15-20 organic results from Google for any keyword.

​Generating buzz - Lenny's Newsletter

You’ll find the ten most common strategies for launching something worth remarking about (including 49 real-life examples).

​Blogging is back, but better - NiemanLab

The primary difference is that these blogs, these magazines, these whatevers, will be built and guided by the individual creators for their audience, not by the executives they once reported to.

Interesting Read

​Inductive versus deductive reasoning: how to make stronger arguments - Ness Labs

Most scientists agree: it’s impossible to prove the truth. However, by using inductive and deductive reasoning, we can get closer.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #43

This issue is sponsored by Safetywing. Safetywing is global health insurance for remote workers and digital nomads.

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